YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Human Understanding According to David Hume
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While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...
This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...
hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...
In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...
In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...